All Episodes
War Studies — 192 episodes
The Divided Brain with Dr Iain McGilchrist
War Stories, Episode 5: An Indian Army officer in counter-insurgency operations, Assam, 2010-2012
A Journalist on the frontline of the 'War on Terror', Iraq and Afghanistan, 2001-2010
War Stories, Episode 3: A Humanitarian in a conflict zone, Afghanistan and Ukraine, 2009-2021
The Helsinki Brief, Episode 3: Finland's Comprehensive Security Model
Afghanistan: 25 Years After 9/11. On the Brink of Another Crisis?
Nostalgia - Shared Histories, Divided Futures
War Stories, Episode 2: A British Armoured Commander in Afghanistan, 2011
Drawing Ukraine: A discussion with Ella Baron
War Stories, Episode 1: A British Infantry Officer in Afghanistan, 2007
The Helsinki Brief, Episode 2: Intelligence Culture in Finland
Leadership in a divided world
Does the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank pose a threat to long-term peace for Palestine and Israel?
24 Hours at the Capitol: Nora Neus on January 6, the Far Right and American Nationalism
The Helsinki Brief: Inside Finnish Intelligence and Security
Victim-centred peacemaking: How victim inclusion shaped Colombia’s Santos-FARC peace process
A Risk Too Far: The Psychology Behind Operation Market Garden
Inside cyberwarfare: Navigating the digital battlefield
The untold story of Chinese naval officers in D-Day
The Spy and the Devil: The forgotten MI6 agent who changed British intelligence
Our Dear Friends in Moscow: Journalism, fear, and betrayal in the age of Putin
Imaging Peace: Photographing everyday peace
Watching the Jackals: Cold War terror, espionage, and Prague’s secret role
Spying in South Asia: Cold War intelligence and the making of modern India
From rebels to rulers: Who are Syria’s new leaders?
How behavioural science can pave the way to peace in Colombia
The national and transnational dynamics of Iraq's Islamic Resistance landscape
Eyes on the Indo-Pacific: Australia’s defence strategy
The fall of Assad and its impact on international dynamics
The legacy of the Yezidi genocide with Mirza Dinnayi
Trump and the future of the Russia-Ukraine war
The power of open-source intelligence with Henrietta Wilson
The Strugle for Taiwan with Professor Sulmaan Khan
The Great Global Rebalancing with Dr Samir Puri
What is the ‘logic’ of intergroup conflict?
Understanding conflict trauma and mental health in South Sudan
Building resilience to violent extremism
How greening initiatives can help promote peace
Nuclear security and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant with Dr Ross Peel
Wargaming: Playing out uncertainty with Dr David Banks
The experiences of displaced Ukrainian women with Dr Daryna Dvornichenko
What do current conflicts tell us about the world today and our prospects for peace?
Israel and conflict memory in Lebanon
Violent extremism and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
Translating the stories of conflict-affected populations
Israel-Hamas war: The rules of armed conflict with Professor Emily Crawford
Addressing male conflict trauma
Growing up in violent extremist families
Reconciliation and reconstruction in post-conflict Iraq
Israel-Hamas war: International Law and the Use of Force with Professor Marko Milanovic
COP28 and Climate Security with Dr Pauline Heinrichs
Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking
24 hours in Charlottesville with Nora Neus
Making the military moral with Professor David Whetham
50 years after Chile's coup d'etat with Francisco Lobo
Afghanistan after the Fall of Kabul with Dr Christine Cheng
Five years in terrorist captivity with Shahbaz Taseer
Society, Sacrifice, and Devotion
Trauma and the reintegration of ex-combatants
Neuroimaging of Radicalisation
Council of the Syrian Charter
What makes a violent lone actor? Exploring the role of mental health
Russia's War: Unravelling the Kremlin's narrative
Making Sense of Trauma
Where are the women? Exploring the experiences of women in conflict
365 days of war in Ukraine: What have we learned?
The women of IS
Do trauma interventions work?
Prisons: the path to extremism?
Breaking cycles of conflict
Compassion or control? Britain and the abolition of slavery with Dr Maeve Ryan
Patchwork States: The roots of political violence in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
The Western Front: The Generals in the First World War
Women leaders in health and conflict
The Road to Vietnam with Dr Pablo de Orellana
Why biodiversity and wildlife conservation is crucial to global security with Dr Richard Milburn
Nuclear forensics: investigating threats to nuclear security with David Smith
The war in Ukraine explained: More from our experts
World We Got This: The role of space in modern-day warfare
World We Got This: How cyber operations, social media & artificial intelligence are changing warfare
The war in Ukraine: Hear from our experts
Women in Security and Academia with Dr Anna Brinkman-Schwartz and Helene Olsen
Fighting with Pride: The 'gay ban' in the UK Armed Forces with Craig Jones
The British way of war, Julian Corbett and national strategy with Professor Andrew Lambert
Ethical leadership in international organisations with Dr Maria Varaki and Dr Guilherme Vasconcelos
The fall of the Soviet Union 30 years on
Challenges and Solutions of Climate Geoengineering
Climate change and the securitization of vulnerable nations
Guilty women, foreign policy, and appeasement with Professor Julie Gottlieb
China, India and the USA’s different approaches to climate security
Drivers and obstacles of the UN Climate Change Agenda
Immigration, decolonisation and Britain’s Radical Right with Dr Liam Liburd
Government responses to climate change and national security
American Grand Strategy and China's hegemonic challenge with Dr Zeno Leoni
Women in the War: The last heroines of Britain’s greatest generation with Lucy Fisher
A new approach to peacebuilding with Severine Autesserre
Child Soldiers: From civil wars to violent extremism with Dr Sukanya Podder
Global Nuclear Disarmament: Could blockchain be the solution? with Dr Lyndon Burford
Naval figures of WWII: The good and the bad with Professor Malcolm Murfett
Russian Imperialism revisited with Dr Domitilla Sagramoso
Revolutionary thought after the Paris Commune with Julia Nicholls
Disinformation and epidemics: The next phase of biowarfare with Rose Bernard
The hidden women behind Britain’s WWII air victory with Sarah-Louise Miller
The Gulf War with Dr Carool Kersten
The untold story of NATO's role in independent Kosovo with Ade Clewlow
Biden and Russia: Re-building the US’ reputation after Trump with Dr Ruth Deyermond
Intelligence and the Norwegian Resistance retold with Dr Tony Insall
'The Great War': War in TV and film with Dr Peter Busch
Women, Peace and Security: The Global South
Religion, war and Israel’s secular millennials with Dr Stacey Gutkowski
Women, Peace and Security: The privatisation of war
The War on Drugs and Anglo-American relations with Dr Philip Berry
Women, Peace and Security: Refugee women with Dr Aiko Holvikivi and Dr Audrey Reeves
Cold War spies with Professor Mike Goodman
Podcast: Perspectives on COVID-19 (part two)
Podcast: Perspectives on COVID-19 (part one)
Podcast: India and COVID-19 / student trip to WW2 battlefields
Podcast: OSINT analysts and algorithms /DWS students at EU Brexit vote/ DWS on Instagram
Podcast: student experience / report on 4chan and 'radicalisation'
Podcast: War Studies 'at home'
Podcast: Free Speech, Religion and the United Nations - Heini i Skorini
Event: Brendan Simms - Hitler: A Global Biography
Podcast: The debate around realism, reflection on Stephen Walt's Talk
Podcast: Exhibition - Art, Conflict & Remembering: The Murals of the Bogside Artists
Event: Michael Newman - Transitional Justice: Contending with the Past
Event: From Timbuktu to The Hague
Event: Saki and Michael Dockrill Memorial Lecture - Diplomatic Intelligence
Podcast: Is Donald Trump’s war on terror all bluster?
Podcast: Legal Investigations of War Crime - 6th episode of 'Experts' podcast series
Podcast: Fake News and how it affects conflict - 5th episode of our 'Expert' podcast series
Podcast: 'Social Media and protests in China in 2011' - 4th episode of 'Expert' series
Podcast: 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Podcast: ‘IS propaganda music’ — third episode of 'EXPERTS' podcast series.
Podcast: 'The Limits of Open Source Intelligence' - second episode of 'EXPERTS' podcast series.
Podcast: 'Lone Actor Terrorism' - the first episode of 'EXPERTS' podcast series.
Podcast: Feminism, International Relations and Global Security - A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe
Podcast: Women in terrorism and counterterrorism since 2001
Podcast: Gangs and urban security
Podcast: Nonreligion, secularity and security (Summer repeat)
Podcast: D-Day and the ordinary citizen soldier
Podcast: Queer perspectives in security studies
Podcast: Human Rights in China with Benedict Rogers
Podcast: Is nuclear energy the answer to the climate crisis?
Podcast: Military Virtues and Truth Tellers
Podcast: Qatar and the weaponisation of narratives
Event: Protecting the Mediterranean
Podcast: Art, Wargaming & Balance of Power (Student Projects)
Podcast: New Voices: cultural and moral dimensions of torture and mercenaries
Podcast: Building Stability (CSD Conference)
Podcast: Extralegal Groups with Dr Christine Cheng
Podcast: Drawing from Nuclear History to Understand Today's Challenges
Podcast: Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia (2018 Marjan-Marsh Award)
Podcast: From the Trial of the Kaiser to the ICC
Podcast: What is the Significance of Russia's 'Military Revival'?
Podcast: Commemoration and Impact of the Great War
Event: Three Admirals on The Indo-Pacific in the Age of Competition
Podcast: Learning and Teaching Gender In War and Militarism
Event: Should the US withdraw from the Middle East?
Podcast: Wargaming Today
Event: Understanding Complex Conflicts: The First World War
Event: Fake News - A Roadmap
Podcast: Art & Reconciliation
Event: The Clash of The New World Orders
Podcast: The US-UK Special Relationship
Podcast: Remembering World War One: An Artistic Perspective
Podcast: The Issue of Radicalisation
Professor Joseph Nye: “I’m much more worried about the rise of Trump than the rise of China”
Dr Patricia Lewis: How to Think About the Future of Peace
Sir Lawrence Freedman: How to Think About the Future of War
Event: Passchendaele - A New History
Podcast: Studying Art and War
Podcast: Risk and Terror
Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War
Reading Week Special/Talking to War Studies Society President
UK and Mass Surveillance / Bodies of Violence
War & Peace in the Central African Republic - Sarah Covington & Albert Carames
Ukraine crisis / Responsibility to Protect
Marjan Centre / Hong Kong War Crimes Trials
Ebola Crisis
Phil Clark on Transitional Justice / Pinar Bilgin on Security in the International
Attrition: Philpott on the First World War
2013/14 podcasts Anatol Lieven on crisis in Ukraine
2013/14 podcasts: King's of War Relaunched
2013/14 podcasts: Refugees in Eastern Sudan / India's nuclear policy
2013/14 podcasts: Hobbs on Nuclear security education / Urban on UK & media
2013/14 podcasts: Leenders on Syria Talks / Omand on electronic surveillance
2013/14 podcasts: US drone strikes in pakistan
2013/14 podcasts: PRISM, TEMPORA, ENDGAME
2013/14 podcasts: Terror Attacks on Energy Infrastructure
2013/14 podcasts: Cyberwar and Peace
2013/14 podcasts: Politics of Life and (In)visibility
2013/14 podcasts: Countering Terrorism in Britain and France